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'Superman' Reeve Group Hails Obama's Stem Cells Decision
"With a stroke of his pen, President Obama acknowledged the will of the majority of Americans and harnessed the power of the federal government to move research forward," the group said in a statement.
"By removing politics from science, President Obama has freed researchers to explore these remarkable stem cells, learn from them and possibly develop effective therapies using them."
The late actor, who lost the use of his arms and legs in a 1995 horse riding accident, became an outspoken champion of cutting edge research to find a cure for spinal injuries and neurological ailments. Reeve died of heart failure in 2004, while his wife Dana died of lung cancer in 2006.
The foundation's laudatory remarks were echoed around the US medical, scientific and research communities.
Dalton Dietrich, scientific director of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis in Florida, said the announced lifting of restrictions means that "now we're actually going to be able to ... get funded by the NIH (National Institutes of Health) to actually solve all these problems."
Another researcher, Joshua Hare of the University of Miami's Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute, said the announcement could pave the way for significant medical advances to cure diseases that until now have been incurable.
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